In the recently-published memoirs of General Dix, is an account of his visit- to Dr. Abernethy for advice on dyspepsia. The queer old doctor said to him : "Sir, you are pretty far gone, and the wonder is you are not gone entirely. If you had consulted common sense, instead of the medical faculty, you could probably have been well years ago. I can say nothing to you excepting this: You must take regular exercise, as much as you can bear without fatigue, as little medicine as possible, of the simplest kind, and this only when absolutely necessary, and a moderate quantity of plain food, of the quality which you find by experience best to agree with you. No man, not even a physician, can prescribe diet for another. A stomach is a stomach, and it is impossible for any one to reason with safety from his own to that of any other person. There are a few general rules which any man of common sense may learn in a week - such as this : That rich food, high seasoning, etc., are injurious. I can say no more to you, sir; you must go and cure yourself."